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[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 111 points 1 week ago
[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 75 points 1 week ago
[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Cassoway = Velociraptors if they could also fly short distances.
Though fortunately generally non-aggressive unless you piss them off.

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well who on earth would be foolish enough to piss them off?

Tap for answer

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago

pretty sure velociraptors were actually smaller lmao, more along the size of turkeys

cassowaries are significantly scarier than velociraptors would have been.

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[-] jimmux@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago

You should hear the sound they make. Thumping bass that you feel as much as you hear it.

[-] match@pawb.social 15 points 1 week ago

he have an onlyfans?

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Clever bird...

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 105 points 1 week ago

My favorite dinosaur is the Ayam Cemani AKA the big black cock

[-] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 days ago

Simple; beautiful; classic.

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 67 points 1 week ago

Ahh, the goth chick

[-] danekrae@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

You S.O.B!

I just tried to find more info, and now I feel bad about myself...

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

None More Black, Hotblack Desiato's preferred fowl.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago
[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

What a big boy!

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hmm, I got different results using a search engine...

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[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 week ago

Anyone else ever wonder whether the dinosaurs were delicious?

[-] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 week ago

100% they absolutely were.

Give geneticists 20 years, we'll have lab grown T-Rex in the grocery store

[-] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 38 points 1 week ago

I suspect T-Rex (like carnivores in general) isn't such a good choice if meat is your goal. Sauropods on the other hand? Tons and tons of meat from a single herbivore animal. You might even be able to use existing cattle feed.

[-] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

Well that's true if you have a live animal producing your meat. Not sure that applies if the meat is lab grown though?

[-] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

At the point where we're making lab-grown dinosaur meat, I suspect the cool factor is way more important than silly things like efficiency. T-Rex meat all the way babyyy

[-] floo@retrolemmy.com 26 points 1 week ago

“Welcome to… Jurassic Farms!

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Great, can't wait to hear beards gatekeep ancient flavor.

"T-Rex is soooo gamey. I prefer Diplodocus veal" "Have you tried pteranodon wings? Like buffalo wings from real buffalo"

[-] captain_oni@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago

Can't wait for brontoburgers.

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[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

"tastes just like chicken"

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago

Many of them probably would

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago

i'd imagine they'd largely taste like wild turkey/alligator, since that's basically what they were and how they lived.

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[-] Alpha71@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago
[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

The whole "dinosaurs having feathers makes them less scary" line of thought is kinda silly.

If you stick a pink bow and glitter on a knife, it doesn't become any leas deadly, plus good luck getting that glitter out of your wounds if you do make it to the "I need to get that glitter out of my wounds" stage.

[-] Alpha71@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

...it's a cartoon...

[-] Corno@lemm.ee 51 points 1 week ago

Hoatzin chicks have joined the chat

[-] IggyTheSmidge@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

(Potentially) [NSFW]

Tap for spoiler

Edit: This one's been floating around the net for long enough that I'd forgotten what the feathery chap in the back left was up to!

Hidden behind a spoiler for those who don't want to see an owl swallowing an entire rat(!)

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 22 points 1 week ago

Owls really are basically cats.

Ps, pls put a NSFW on it haha. I don't mind but others will.

[-] IggyTheSmidge@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago

Good call - not sure you can tag images in comments as NSFW (to get the auto-blur), but I've hidden it in spoiler tags.

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

It's not what it seems to be!

[-] Lime66@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

So your favorite bird genre is birds as a whole? Nice, me too!

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Birds don’t just look like dinosaurs they are dinosaurs, scientifically speaking.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Though by that logic, we're all amphibians or something.

[-] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago

How do you call this species?

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 33 points 1 week ago
[-] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 week ago

Ani are you groove-billed?

Are you groove-billed, Ani?

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

may christ have mercy on my soul, i read this in watto's voice

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[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago

Thank you so much, I just learned there's a blue version

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[-] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

All birds are.

[-] Rajkuhl@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I shall name him Kweh-vin.

[-] BoobaAwooga@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 week ago

When did and why did dinosaurs go from giant fangs to beaks? Or are reptiles more direct descendants of those dinosaurs

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

Birds are the only direct descendents of dinosaurs. Reptiles were around at the same time as dinosaurs and evolved independently. There are huge differences, scales instead of skin and feathers, cold blooded instead of warm, etc.

Why Do Birds No Longer Have Teeth?

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[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago

fwiw there were plenty of non-avian dinosaurs with beaks, ceratopsids for one.

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